haha why not?
from a secular standpoint...
This kind of topic always has it's problems. As will anything like it.
Strange bed fellows. The constitutional ideas, the law and court, and politics.
All i can say is WE the people. One nation Under who? One God? Hmm and what is his commandments?
haha why not?
from a secular standpoint...
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Whatever document you're quoting, and I don't doubt it was an official one, is contradictory to the seperation of church and State set out in the constitution.
I'm a Christian no doubt, but I'd seriously like to see consistency in the U.S.'s statements on religion one way or the other... Even if that means rewriting what our forefathers said.
If the U.S. wants to be a fullout secular nation, let it be, and we'll pray for the best.
If it wants to include somewhat of a theocracy, at least half this country would welcome it.
From an academic standpoint I'd like to just see consistency.
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Contradictory? I don't think what he posted is in anyway contradictory to the idea of separation of church and state. Keep in mind that separation of the two is a separation of entities which was meant to keep the autonomy of and benefit the church as much if not more than the state. In addition separation of the church and state as entities should not automatically encompass and presume to include the separation of God and state.
"If the U.S. wants to be a fullout secular nation, let it be, and we'll pray for the best.
If it wants to include somewhat of a theocracy, at least half this country would welcome it."
That would definitely be considered a passivist approach which by all means you have a right to but I don't think all people of faith should necessarily accept that idea if its not what they believe is in the best interest of the country they are citizens of. A for half the country as you stated...some polls that i've seen suggest it might be a little higher...polls that ask whether they want america to become a purely secularist state are usually much more clear and tally in the +90% opposed range.
I think we should send ever queer in the world to an island and nuke it
You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.
Maybe we can have you lead the way there, and if we're lucky, you won't escape the blast in time. You racist, homophobe.
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
We have so far absored every thing anyone wants. Took every thing out of our schools and where has our society went. Straight down hill.
So let's see take more and more out and see what we become. We already have and allow more than most nations.
Not to many where i think English is now the second language in an English speaking country?
No we have become a land of whatever. And most of the time we use our own constitiution to make it law and acceptable.
Look at what all has become acceptable since the 60's and 70's and see how far back we have went as a country.
If your gonna separate church and state. Then these schools who can still get some funding from state's for teaching subjects they want taught need to be cut off. It would give more to the state schools.
You may be one wise one whaoo. but still a lot to learn about real life. It's easy to do it in college. I thought i knew it all to. But then came real life and i realized. I had a clue to grow on. But that was about it. You will find the same as you enter and keep entering adulthood.
The real problem now. To many chiefs and not enough indians. Some day you will understand that.
so what about the people who are born infertile???
gay people are not the only people who commit sodomy
I have no problem with it, ain't up to me to judge
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
hahahaha now ironlung, that has to be the funniest post youve ever made
and i agree 100%
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
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